All 4 Uses of
calamity
in
Wuthering Heights
- Ere long, I heard the click of the latch, and Catherine flew up-stairs, breathless and wild; too excited to show gladness: indeed, by her face, you would rather have surmised an awful calamity.†
Chpt 10 *
- I could not pursue them, however; and I dared not rouse the family, and fill the place with confusion; still less unfold the business to my master, absorbed as he was in his present calamity, and having no heart to spare for a second grief!†
Chpt 12
- And would it not be foolish to mourn a calamity above twenty years beforehand?'†
Chpt 22
- On the succeeding morning I was laid up, and during three weeks I remained incapacitated for attending to my duties: a calamity never experienced prior to that period, and never, I am thankful to say, since.†
Chpt 23
Definition:
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(calamity) a disastrous event; or the distress resulting from it